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Yesterday

Workplace correspondent David Marin-Guzman.

AFR’s Marin-Guzman wins Gold Walkley for Building Bad report

Reporter David Marin-Guzman was part of a team that uncovered construction companies’ dirty dealings with bikies and underworld identities.

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The CFMEU has gone to the High Court to challenge laws placing it into administration.

$11m in fines, 1000 breaches: Labor defends CFMEU crackdown in court

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has cited $10.6 million in fines against the CFMEU as part of the government’s defence of laws that forced the union into administration.

  • David Marin-Guzman

This Month

Two fund directors appointed by the union have been removed from their roles.

How CFMEU wields control of a $1.2b workers’ redundancy fund

The chief executive of Incolink warned an employer group that the union could deprive it of tens of millions of dollars if they did not agree to demands.

  • David Marin-Guzman
The suspension applies to construction projects not yet off the ground.

Qld to end CFMEU entitlements for rainy and humid days

Industry conditions that allow for a month of rostered days off a year for unionised construction workers have been suspended by the new Queensland government.

  • James Hall

October

Cbus CIO Brett Chatfield has presided over a calamitous period for the industry super fund.

Jobs go as troubled industry super giant Cbus rolls out restructure

Street Talk asked Cbus how many roles reported to chief investment officer Brett Chatfield now versus his appointment in June 2023.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
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Rebel unions threaten to fund independent candidates to challenge Labor

The exiled CFMEU leadership is planning more mass walkouts of construction workers, as blue-collar unionists consider changes to future political funding.

  • David Marin-Guzman and Gus McCubbing
Workplace correspondent David Marin-Guzman.

AFR journalists finalists for four Walkley Awards

An almost year-long investigation into the CFMEU that exposed underworld infiltration of the construction industry is among finalists from The Australian Financial Review in the 69th Walkley Awards.

September

Paddy Crumlin has been nominated to the board of Cbus.

Cbus’ CFMEU fallout ‘shows APRA’s weakness in super oversight’

Super funds get “preferential treatment” compared with banks and insurers, which may leave retirees out of pocket down the track.

  • Hannah Wootton
Fraudsters George Alex and Mark Bryers were recorded talking on police surveillance about their dealings with the CFMEU.

George Alex’s boast: I’m untouchable because CFMEU ‘need money’

The organised crime boss bragged that the union deemed his firms “untouchable” on building sites because union officials needed their “kickers”, according to police surveillance.

  • David Marin-Guzman and Nick McKenzie
The CFMEU rally in Melbourne.

Labor says CFMEU situation is under control. But look on the streets

The CFMEU rallies are the obvious signs of turmoil behind the scenes as a government-appointed administrator struggles to deal with union threats.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Cbus’ CFMEU-picked directors have left but three more are awaiting approval to replace them.

Minister, watchdog put onus on Cbus to decide on controversial directors

Industrial Relations Minister Murray Watt and the prudential watchdog sidestepped any endorsement of union firebrand Paddy Crumlin to the board.

  • Hannah Wootton
CFMEU rallies in Sydney and Melbourne.

‘Your scalp will be ours’: Union threat to employers

Unionists backing the CFMEU have told thousands of protesters that anyone who assists the administrator as “betrayers”.

  • David Marin-Guzman and Gus McCubbing
The broader labour movement and all politicians need to stop turning a blind eye to toxic CFMEU leaders.

Put new ‘cop on beat’ to stop CFMEU menace machine

We need a new national body with the right powers and accountability to fairly police the threat-filled no-go, police-free zone of Australian life.

  • Mike Zorbas
CFMEU administrator Mark Irving, KC, said his investigation would inquire into suppliers to the Victorian branch and their relationship to union officials.

CFMEU administrator takes on labour hire as industry model

The man assigned to clean out the CFMEU is opening up a broader inquiry into the labour hire industry.

  • David Marin-Guzman
Paddy Crumlin has been nominated to the board of Cbus.

Boss of worst super fund tapped to join Cbus board

The CFMEU administrator nominated Maritime Union boss Paddy Crumlin to the $92 billion construction industry fund’s board despite his stint chairing the failed Maritime Super.

  • Hannah Wootton and Michael Read
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‘Extremely volatile’: CFMEU delegate grabs AFR photographer

A CFMEU member has allegedly manhandled a Nine photographer as union members vote to walk off the job in Sydney next week.

  • Gus McCubbing and David Marin-Guzman
The CFMEU scandal’s fallout into the superannuation sector is continuing with two fund directors appointed by the union removed from their roles.

More CFMEU directors removed from industry super fund boards

The union’s administrator has replaced the two BUSSQ directors with other CFMEU officials.

  • Hannah Wootton
Some CFMEU workers are unhappy with the union forcing them onto a new fund that doesn’t return profits to the workers.

Union redundancy fund war heats up

A major NSW fund has blocked members from transferring their money to the John Setka-backed Incolink fund in a fight to control billions of dollars in the unregulated sector.

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  • David Marin-Guzman
Lendlease chief executive Tony Lombardo, right, with AFR columnist James Thomson on stage at the Financial Review Property Summit.

Lendlease chief says critics ‘got it 80 per cent right’

Under pressure from major investors like John Wylie and David Di Pilla, the country’s largest property group is selling more than $4.5 billion in assets

  • Michael Bleby

CFMEU deals put union in bed with bikies and the underworld

An investigation reveals the relationships that have vaulted companies with links to criminals into favoured positions on the nation’s building sites.

  • Nick McKenzie and David Marin-Guzman

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